Download or read book Socrates in the Underworld written by Nalin Ranasinghe and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: menaced by the silent violence of technology and the imperatorial tones of a false voluntaristic god - a deity who never seeks to persuade but kills those he cannot frighten. Today, it is increasingly clear that Athens and Jerusalem must combine forces and march to the relief of civilization from the joint assault of these barbarisms - old and new. It is only fitting then, that the West should return to its Socratic origins at this crucial kairos." --Book Jacket.